From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... decision.
BB p.86,
Into Action
2.
... Decision."
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
III. To insure effective leadership,
we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General
Service Board and its service corporations, staffs,
committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of
Decision."
3.
... decision.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
4.
... decision, and
an inventory of your grosser ...
BB p.71,
How It Works
If you have already made a
decision, and an inventory of your grosser
handicaps, you have made
a good beginning.
5.
... decision and
tell his story, but do ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
Let him know you are available if he wishes to
make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.
6.
... decision is
yes, whether the reason be ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
If your decision is yes, whether the reason be humanitarian or business or both, then the following suggestions
may be helpful.
7.
... decision must
be made or engagement kept.
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He has a positive genius
for getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly
when some important decision must be made or engagement kept.
8.
... decision to
exert himself.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
9.
... decision to
swing the door open.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
10.
... decision to
turn our will and our ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
11.
... decision to
turn our will and our ...
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
In fact, the effectiveness of the whole A.A. program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have
tried to come to "a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."
12.
... decision to
turn our will and our ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments
of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
13.
... decision to
turn our will and our ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
14.
... decision was
a vital and crucial step, ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous
effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
15.
... decision, who
holds no resentment over his ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The elder statesman is
the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by
considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines
patiently awaiting developments.
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